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BTC_P2P 1 year ago
It is to those committing the crimes 😂
A crime means attacking someone's property, including of course the physical integrity aka the body, of a person. So actually their are obvious crimes defined by natural rights that precede the State and the Law
Law is underpinned by power. As long as there have been power differentials, the powerful have perceived any slight against that power as something akin to a crime. If you have dogs then you have seen the animal form of this. The world is organized around power and those who exercise it. We just need to love our way out of it fren.
The powerful don't decide unilaterally what language is, although of course they try to influence it. If the dictionary said "pizza" was "a machine for flying people through the air, suspended by a rotating blade" you would realize the dictionary is just wrong. Similarly, if a legislator says he can decide what plants you do or don't smoke & enforce his decision with armed goons, you should realize he is simply wrong about the law.
The old meanings were not handed down from God (in my opinion) but discovered by man primarily through trial and error (although reason sometimes provides a shortcut). We can discover them again.